CO129-609-3 Future policy- draft Municipal Council Ordinance 1-1-1947 - 31-12-1947 — Page 115

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time for refreshment, and excluding (except so far as

he way, with the concurrence of the counting agents, if

any, otherwise determine) the hours between eight o'clock

in the evening and nine o'clock on the succeeding morning.

During the excluded time the returning officer shall place

the ballot papers and other documents relating to the

election under his own seals and the seals of such of the

counting agents as desire to affix their seals, and shall

otherwise take proper precautions for the security of the

papers and documents.

Void ballot papers.

34. Any ballot paper

(a) which does not bear the official mark; or

(b) on which votes are given for more candidates

than the elector is entitled to vote for; ur

(c) on which anything is written or marked by which

the elector can be identified except the printed

number on the back; or

(a) which is unmarked or void for uncertainty;

shall not be counted:

Provided that where the elector is entitled to vote for

more than one candidate, the ballot paper shall not be

deemed to be void as regards any vote as to which no

uncertainty arises, and that vote shall be counted.

35. (1) The returning officer shall endorse

(a) the word "rejected" on any ballot paper which

under the last preceding paragraph is not to be

counted; and

(b) in the case of a ballot paper on which any vote

is counted under the proviso to that paragraph,

the words "rejected in part" and a memorandum

specifying the votes counted.

(2) The returning officer shall in either case add to

the endorsement the words "rejection obfjected to", if an

objection is made by any counting agent to his decision.

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